DPhil Candidate, Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford Gino is a Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist with a clinical specialism in selective mutism at St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He was awarded the NIHR Predoctoral Clinical Academic Fellowship (PCAF) in 2018. During this fellowship, he carried out a systematic review and meta-analysis of nonpharmacological interventions for children and adolescents with selective mutism. He was awarded the NIHR Clinical Doctoral Research Fellowship (CDRF) in 2022. He is currently doing his DPhil in Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford. His doctoral research uses mixed methods to co-design a therapist led online programme to support children with selective mutism. The project is known as the Preschool and primary school intervention for selective mutism (PRISM) study.
Lecturer in Marketing & Strategy, Cardiff University Giandomenico is a Lecturer in Marketing and Strategy at Cardiff Business School. Before joining Cardiff Business School, he conducted his doctoral studies at the University of Portsmouth. He adopts mainly experimental methods to better understand the dark side of social media, particularly the characteristics and spreading dynamics of misinformation through these channels. He focuses on how direct and indirect misinformation impacts brands and consumer behaviour. He is also interested in the dynamics of influencer marketing. He has published in internationally recognised journals such as Journal of Business Research, Psychology & Marketing, the Journal of Interactive Marketing, the Journal of Public Policy & Marketing and Current Opinion in Psychology. He is a member of the Board of the journal Psychology & Marketing as Social Media Editor.
Directeur de recherche CNRS émérite, biogéochimie territoriale, Sorbonne Université Gilles Billen a effectué le début de sa carrière à l’Université Libre de Bruxelles, où il a dirigé le Groupe de Microbiologie des Milieux Aquatiques pendant 15 ans. Il a été pendant toute cette période très actif dans le domaine de la modélisation des processus microbiens en zones estuarienne et marine, en relation avec les cycles du carbone et des nutriments. Après son intégration au CNRS, il a été le directeur du Programme Interdisciplinaire de recherché sur l’environnement de la Seine (PIREN-Seine). Ses recherches ont été alors centrées sur le développement d’outils de modélisation permettant de faire le lien entre l’activité humaine dans les bassins versant et la qualité de l’eau dans les réseaux hydrographiques, principalement sur la Seine mais aussi sur l’Escaut, la Moselle, la Loire, le Danube, le Fleuve Rouge (Nord Vietnam) et la Nam Kahn (Laos), dans le cadre de plusieurs programmes européens et de coopération. Plus récemment, le champ de ses travaux s’est élargi à l’étude des relations entre la demande alimentaire urbaine et l’agriculture des territoires qui les nourrissent, avec l’introduction du concept de foodprint et de bassin alimentaire. L’élaboration de scénarios alternatifs de relocalisation de l’approvisionnement alimentaire des villes et de conversion de l’agriculture à des modes de production plus respectueux de l’environnement est au cœur de ses recherches actuelles.
PhD student, Charles Darwin University Greg Barber is a long-time environmentalist and policymaker. His education background was originally in biology and later in business administration and finance. His most recent research looked at how information on Australian political party climate change policies is integrated into voter attitudes and party identification in opinion polls. For this he received first class honours (from CDU). He is a Darwin resident and draws inspiration from the natural environment of the Northern Territory.
Postgraduate Researcher/Project Manager, Massey University After more than 25 years working in the arts and events sector and as a freelance photographer, I chose to study via distance in 2018, completing an undergraduate degree in environmental studies, and I am currently working on my Master's in International Development. I have a wide range of interests, including rights-based studies, particularly gender and Indigenous rights, as well as social justice issues and art activism.
Professor of Chemistry, Clemson University Dr. George Chumanov received BS/MS and PhD degrees in Physics in the area of optics, spectroscopy, and quantum electronics. His PhD research focused on the spectroscopy of biomolecules including Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) of amino acids and proteins. He did postdoctoral training with Dr. Theresa Cotton at Iowa State University focusing on SERS of photosynthetic reaction centers and other transmembrane proteins. He took a position of Staff Scientist at Ames Laboratory of the US Department of Energy in 1993 where his research expanded to include photoinduced electron transfer phenomena at interfaces and plasmonic nanoparticles. His current interests are broadly defined as the synthesis and analytical applications of nanostructures including plasmonics, the development of new analytical methods, the application of various spectroscopic techniques to biomolecules, electron and scanning probe microscopy methods. He is very passionate about doing research as well as training students, and, in his free time, enjoys sports, mountain climbing, biking, gardening, and brewing.
